Un air de famille, the third-living space for young and old in the 10th arrondissement

Un air de famille is like a cocoon in our busy lives, a place to take a break and enjoy the activities, food and courses on offer. Here, everything has been thought out to make you feel at home: intimate spaces for quiet coworking, spacious, bright rooms for yoga or salsa classes, a restaurant on a human scale... The place is really designed like a family home, with a room for every purpose: the kitchen where the restaurant is located, the lounge for coffee or work, and the rooms for activities and sports classes.

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This project is the brainchild of Charlotte and Virginie, two friends who have known each other since their university days. Charlotte works in communications, Virginie is a school teacher. Between them, they set up Un air de famille in 2013 to offer extracurricular activities by picking up children from neighboring schools after school, and children's vacation courses with a whole host of cultural, sporting and educational activities.

"The idea came from offering children quality workshops after school," explains Charlotte. Since then, the offer has even opened up to teenagers, with activities every weekday evening, and then to adults, with various yoga and dance classes, as well as early childhood and parenting workshops, such as baby massage, babywearing, musical awakening, prenatal yoga... You can take out a subscription, a package of 5 or 10 sessions, or pay by the session.

Since then, the team has grown to welcome Lily, formerly a neonatal nurse in a major Paris hospital, in 2020. She is now in charge of developing a range of parenting activities. In fact, on Monday December 5, 2022, Un air de famille is organizing its very first meeting as part of"Apartés", a series of discussions with midwives, sociologists, pediatricians, psychologists... To tackle the major themes of parenthood.

While on Wednesdays or late afternoons, it's mostly children who occupy the rooms atUn air de famille, at lunchtime it's more likely to be the grown-ups. With its affordable menu - €15.5 for a main course and dessert or a main course and starter, €19 for the starter-main course-dessert option - and plates that are as tasty as they are well-balanced, it's hard to find a better compromise for a lunch break. Service is fast and the menu changes daily.

Mathilde, the chef, concocts colorful dishes based on organic, sustainable and local cuisine. At this cantine, you'll have a choice of only two or three dishes, with vegetarian options, as this minimalist menu guarantees the freshness of the food. What's more, even if the desserts change every day, some are among the restaurant's must-tries: the crunchy yet melt-in-the-mouth crumble, the pannacotta, the cookies with their original flavors... Perfect for dessert or a four o'clock snack.